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Re: [PATCH try2 09/14] apply: add --stage option

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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 13, 2013, 10:31 UTC
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On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
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> 2013/10/13 Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>:
>> Here "staged".
> ...
>> But here "stage".
>
> The inconsistency is weird, but isn't the term "staged" a bit odd with
> something that affects the future...?
>
> "Apply to the stage" seems a reasonable english phrasing, but "staged"
> seems more awkward...

That's true, I was thinking since this was supposed to be a non-intrusive change, it would make sense to keep close to the --cached option, but the synonym is actually --index, not --cached. So --stage makes more sense from those two points of view.

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Felipe Contreras
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Message 13 of 21 in “completion: update 'git reset' new stage options”
  1. 14/14 completion: update 'git reset' new stage optionsFelipe Contreras, Oct 12, 2013
  2. 04/14 grep: add --staged optionFelipe Contreras, Oct 12, 2013
  3. 07/14 stash: add --stage to pop and applyFelipe Contreras, Oct 12, 2013
  4. 00/14 Officially start moving to the term 'staging area'Felipe Contreras, Oct 12, 2013
  5. 10/14 apply: add --work, --no-work optionsFelipe Contreras, Oct 12, 2013
  6. 01/14 Add proper 'stage' commandFelipe Contreras, Oct 12, 2013
  7. Eric SunshineOct 14, 2013
  8. Felipe ContrerasOct 14, 2013
  9. 09/14 apply: add --stage optionFelipe Contreras, Oct 12, 2013
  10. Eric SunshineOct 13, 2013
  11. Felipe ContrerasOct 13, 2013
  12. Miles BaderOct 13, 2013
  13. Felipe ContrerasOct 13, 2013
  14. 03/14 diff: document --stagedFelipe Contreras, Oct 12, 2013
  15. 05/14 rm: add --staged optionFelipe Contreras, Oct 12, 2013
  16. 02/14 stage: add edit commandFelipe Contreras, Oct 12, 2013
  17. 13/14 reset: allow --keep with --stageFelipe Contreras, Oct 12, 2013
  18. 12/14 reset: add --stage and --work optionsFelipe Contreras, Oct 12, 2013
  19. 08/14 submodule: add --staged optionsFelipe Contreras, Oct 12, 2013
  20. 11/14 completion: update --staged optionsFelipe Contreras, Oct 12, 2013
  21. 06/14 stash: add --stage option to saveFelipe Contreras, Oct 12, 2013

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